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Former 90210 star Jason Priestley is jumping behind the camera this summer to direct a new teen drama web series, The Lake, for Warner Brothers and cross-platform studio Generate.

The series is currently in pre-production and casting notices have popped up on Breakdown Services. There’s a fair amount of info on the series through the breakdowns, including the following synopsis:

THE LAKE is a serialized drama about four families who over two generations have spent every summer together at Lake Eleanor.

Brooklyn-based Waverly Films, the cleverly twisted folks behind Atom’s Streamy-nominated (and Webby winning) animated web series Stickman Exodus, have just had their latest pitch, The Fuzz, greenlit and funded by Atom and Comedy Central. Waverly’s Christopher Ford is creating the series slated to premiere later this year on Atom.com.

If you were a fan of Stickman Exodus’ ruthlessly wacky humor, rejoice: the new show, entitled The Fuzz, is about an upswing in crime – and the resulting collaboration between people and puppets in the police force. The show is currently approved for a five-episode online run, with plans to develop a half-hour pilot that could lead to on-air distribution via Comedy Central.

Rosie would be proud. Jake Wilson and his post grad colleagues from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor have belted out two seasons of clever story telling with exceptional musical numbers that tap dance straight into the heart of theater lovers. The Battery’s Down, an original online comedy series created by Wilson, has managed to come out [...]

Set-top boxes are quickly bridging the gap between television and interwebs TV; already, much of the entertainment content created for the web is available in our living rooms from the comfort of our couches… and the innovation has just begun. I’ll explore this with some of the industry’s leading minds tomorrow at Streaming Media East. [...]

I have a 14 year-old cousin who’s just discovering teenage angst, black clothes, and rock n’ roll. His main method of musical discovery is thumbing through his parent’s vinyl and then iTunesing the band names with the album covers that look the most badass (The Doors Strange Days, Alice in Chains Facelift, Led Zeppelin Physical [...]

Web geek diva temptress Shira Lazar has found the secret to making money with web video.

Really, is there anything more lucrative than YouTube videos? Well maybe with a little bit of web cred alchemy. The launch today of the I AM A GEEK! video on YouTube may have just found the elusive answer to getting viewers to part with their hard-earned dollars. The video is a call to action for support Room to Read, a global non-profit building literacy in the developing world.

The video, which was launched this morning along with the new Society for Geek Advancement site, features a number of social media and web scenesters: Steve Wozniak, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Pollak, Wil Wheaton, Levar Burton, Jason Calacanis, Samm Levine, Felicia Day, Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht, Leo Laporte, IJustine, David Karp, Brian Solis, Veronica Belmont, Sarah Lacy, Pete Cashmore, Randi Zuckerberg, Ton Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin Pereira, Tay Zonday, Shaq, Julia Allison, Julia Roy, Marina Orlova and of course Shira Lazar.

You know that web television has made it when they beat the Bravo to the punch on a new reality show.

On second thought, when that new reality show is AcuteTV’s Whorified! The Search for America’s Next Top Whore, Bravo probably passed on it a year ago. Creators Ann Marie Lindbloom and Jeff Venables arrived on the web series scene last year with Two Peas in Your Pod, which made Forbes Magazine called one of the Top 15 indie series on Veoh.

Whorified! is a tongue-in-cheek reality show that adopts the conventions found in reality TV stapes like America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway, and Top Chef for a new show based around, well, the world’s oldest profession. The promo was posted about a year ago – looks like this show has been a long time in coming before its premiere on May 1st, setting the stage for drama, pitting businesswomen, housewives, and ladies from all walks of life together to compete for a shot at the title of Top Whore.

Toronto-based Mars on Mars Independent Productions has released the first five episodes of its black-and-white web series, Ten Sundays, a seemingly simple show about two best friends who live together — and spend basically all of their time on the couch.

The series, each of which is part of a set of Sundays that happens chronologically, is directed by Canadian filmmaker Pavan Moondi and stars Brian Weadick and Mike Sloan.

As for the characters, David (Weadick) and Jesse (Sloan) are a couple of post-college pals who trade snippets of snarky advice on subjects like job interviews and dating. The entire ten-episode series takes place on the pair’s living room couch and kicks off when David falls for a bossy girl and Jesse forgets his reason for living after messing up a critical job interview.